CFP: Cross-Cultural Expressions of Spirituality (1/31/04; collection)

full name / name of organization:

BioDun Ogundayo

contact email:

ogundayo@exchange.upb.pitt.edu

Recent events have led to reappraisals of religion and spirituality.This creates an opportunity to collect in one volume the different anddiffering perspectives and interpretations of what it means to bereligious or spiritual today. Essays intended for an internationalaudience are therefore solicited for inclusion in a collectiontentatively entitled "Uniqueness and Versatility: Cross-CulturalExpressions of Spirituality". The book is to bring together innovativebut readable explorations of religious, mythological, cosmological andtheological texts.

The editor welcomes well-researched essays aimed at (re)readingestablished and emergent voices in the mentioned areas. Contributorsare at liberty to explore any aspect of spirituality, culture andreligion reflecting their academic and scholarly orientations.Contributions on the themes such as spiritual awakening, God, ecstasy,super-fear, education, women's spirituality, non-Western traditions,esotericism and the like are welcome.

Submissions should be between fifteen and twenty-five pages, althoughlonger contributions will be accepted in exceptional circumstances.Contributors are encouraged but not necessarily bound to adopt the MLAformat in preparing their essays, and submissions can initially be madeeither electronically or in two hard copies. Even though the deadlinefor submissions is January 31,2004, the editor welcomes earlysubmissions and enquiries.